Docent Quotes

#1. Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

Michel De Montaigne

#2. The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

David McCord

#3. Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Gina Greenlee

#4. Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.

Lars Kepler

#5. Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

Garrison Keillor

#6. Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.

Marilyn Manson

#7. Q. How many docents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Two. One to remove the old lightbulb and the other to tell the story behind it.

Ron Brackin

#8. A high heel makes you feel different than a non-high heel. I love a high bootie because they are so high but comfortable, so I feel strong and powerful. That's the best.

Alysia Reiner

#9. The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.

R.L. LaFevers

#10. One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

Mark Barnes

#11. I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

David Sedaris

#12. My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?

Oscar De La Renta

#13. We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

Herbert Bayer

#14. The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

William P. Young

#15. Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.

Cary Fukunaga

#17. Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

Jill Scott

#18. You can't feel the essence of Happiness unless you overcome your Sadness.

Mohith Agadi

#19. Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.

Nick Hornby

#20. As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults.

David Wenham

#21. - most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.

Stephanie Bond